Comments for 18 More Reasons to Hate the Patriots at http://www.18to88.com , comment 1 to 24 out of 20 comments http://www.18to88.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:43:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-10656 This is by far the most spectacular season of Brady's career. He's hands down the MVP, and has been incredible. This is a vastly superior performance to his overrated 2007 season. If NE wins the SB with the awful defense they have this year, it will be his crowning achievement, and cap probably the best single season a QB ever had. Doubt it happens, but I'm not going to lie about what it would mean if it did. - DZ_Dunlevy Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:56:54 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-10655 So how does your theory hold up now? Brady’s having the best season of his career and no Randy Moss. The Pats started playing better as soon as they got rid of him, in fact. And don't forget — Brady's got three rings with no Moss and no elite receivers. - JIm McGaw Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:40:43 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-10461 The point was that Cassel (for there is zero evidence that he's good at all) posted identical numbers as Brady did for the first six years of his career and that the Pats cruised to 11 wins with a team not nearly as good as the ones that won the Super Bowl. It's all about the system. If anything, it shows that Brady's 2007 was all about Moss. He can make any QB look good. Check Cassel's stats last year. I grant you that Randy Moss is the greatest quarterback maker of all time, but I don't think Brady's WRs were nearly as bad as people made them out to be. WRs weren't important to the Pats for the better part of a decade because the system was what was winning games. They sucked by 2006 because they let Branch go, but before that they were more passable. What's hilarious is how people acted like Brady had a down year this year, when it was clearly one of the second best year of his career. It's insane that anyone thought he'd play better. Last season was a good as Tom Brady is ever going to look. Of course, it was aided by 10 TDs in just two games against the Titans and Jags, but still. - DZ Mon, 10 May 2010 14:13:11 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-10460 Can I see the articles you wrote about Brady and Cassell? I'd like to hear your arguments. I'm still confused as to how you can compare Brady throwing to Gafney, Caldwell, Branch, and Troy Brown and the other mediocre receivers to Cassell throwing to Randy Moss and Wes Welker and say they are the same player. But you generally provide excellent facts in support of your arguments, so I'd like to read the articles. - your favorite dolphins fan Mon, 10 May 2010 11:40:03 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-8560 Number one should be they have more rings than the Colts!! - Coltsbabeisaditchpig Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:39:39 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-6785 Regarding reason number 14, does that apply only to football players named Wes? Because Wes Unseld was a great center (I believe out of Louisville) for the NBA Bullets many decades ago. A fine human being, too. Had the size and athletic ability to have tried out as a O-lineman or blocking tight end if he'd wanted to do it... - diogenes Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:46:34 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-5881 1. I would debate that it was the same supporting cast. It was a similar one, but there had been some changes. Cassel also didn't have the benefit of working the whole preseason with those players. As for the 11 wins, the defense already had begun to erode. That was as responsible for the drop in wins as anything. When Cassel went to KC he went to a team devoid of anything. The Pats weren't going to 16-0 the next year, just because the law of regression was going to take over. Most experts only had the Pats at 13-3 before the 08 season. Had Cassel been the starting QB from the go, they probably could have hit that number. 2. Rational discussion? Always welcome here. - DZ Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:29:16 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-5879 Brady threw 50 TDs and won 16 games with Cassel's supporting cast in 2007. In 2008, Cassel took virtually the same team and they won 11 games and he had far fewer TDs. Then, Cassel left for KC and with weaponry similar to Brady's from 2001-2006, was pretty poor. The Dolphins schedule in 2008, obviously, was nearly identical to the Patriots one. The only two games that were different were the AFC south and north games. Both teams lost both of those games. BTW, thanks for some rational discussions. It's nice to be able to talk football without throwing insults, which is common over the football internet forums. - your favorite dolphins fan Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:24:44 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-5873 Cassel's 2008 stats after his first game are almost identical to Tom Brady's stats from 2001-2006. I did a whole series of articles on it last year. The Pats won 11 games with Cassel, enough to make the playoffs and even win the division in almost any other year. They only won 10 this year, and won the division. It wasn't Cassel's fault the Dolphins got a crazy easy schedule in 2008. - DZ Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:26:10 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-5871 What were the long-held suspicions Matt Cassell confirmed? And what happened in 2008? I mean, the Dolphins won the division, that was something. - your favorite dolphins fan Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:07:00 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-5676 I wish I was clowning, but that's the truth. - your favorite dolphins fan Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:16:58 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-5675 lol. You are a clown, dude. - DZ Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:05:45 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-5674 I just found my first reason to hate the Indianapolis Colts. They play by different set of rules than everybody else in the league, you can't breathe on their receivers without a flag, but their DBs can grab and claw without penalty - your favorite dolphins fan Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:04:34 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-4284 Awesome list, I am glad 18to88 is still bearing the Patriots Hating torch. Hopefully now it's proven that they cannot win in the postseason without cheating. Stick a fahkin fork in these guys! PS Welker is the WORST!!! - Dave H Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:09:49 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-4265 I think ND just told Weiss thre was no more free lunch, literally, at the campus cafeterias and he said "I'm gone." Now he and Mark Mangino will team up in their own Madden Cruiser (with beefed up suspension) to cross the country for their own reality TV show called Training Table, in which they stop at literally every HS and college football team in the land, hang out to BS about football for a couple free, copious t-table meals, and then move on. - Bob M Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:43:14 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-3861 Hey, congratulations on resuming your fanship of Notre Dame. They finally gave Weiss the boot... a couple seasons too late. - Zackasaurus Rex Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:02 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-3792 I bet it took you all day to come up with that. - DZ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:59:33 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-3791 Crappy city crappy fans and 1 SB win WOW when can I move there? - IndySucks Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:57:25 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-3443 Loved number 1. Seriously.... best comment ever. Trumps the Mel Blunt rule (that is from like 78') that gets put on Manning's shoulders by morons who don't know history. - Anhero Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:49:09 +0100 http://www.18to88.com/fixtures/2009/18-more-reasons-to-hate-the-patriots.html#comment-2817 Of course Vinatieri!! Stupid me!... I would like to know what Pats fans think of him after playing and winning a SB in Indianapolis. - Nacho from Buenos Aires Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:52 +0100